Dr. Jont B. Allen received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1966, and MS and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 and 1970 respectively. After graduation in 1970 Allen joined Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill NJ, where he was in the Acoustics Research Department (from 1974 to 1997), as a Distinguished member of Technical Staff. From 1997-2002 he was with the research division of the newly created AT&T Labs. Then in 2003 Allen joined the Dept. of Electrical Engineering of University of Illinois, as an Associate Professor, with tenure (2007).

Feipeng Li received his BS and MS, both in EE from Wuhan University, China, in 1996 and 1999 respectively. In Aug. 2003 he became a PhD student in the ECE Department at UIUC. His research interest is in signal process for hearing aids and cochlear implants.

Roger Serwy received his BS in EE from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2007. His interests are in signal processing, computer science, and non-linear cochlear modeling.

Len Pan received his BS in EE from the Ohio State University in 2006. His interests are in signal processing and speech perception.

Abhinauv Kapoor received his BS in EE from the University of Illinois in December 2006. He held and engineering development position at Motorola from May 2006. His interests lie in signal processing and information coding in speech.

Reggie Weece received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2007. During the summer of 2007 he held an internship at Shure, Incorporated, working on the updated Microflex Microphones line. While pursuing his MSME in the field of speech production and perception, he has served as a teaching assistant for ECE 403 - Audio Engineering (Spring 2008) and ECE 538 - Speech and Hearing Acoustics (Fall 2008), and is working at Mimosa Acoustics in Champaign, IL.

Bryce Lobdell received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University - Lafayette in 2002, and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2006. He has held internetships at Agilent Technologies and Willtek Inc. related to wireless communications. His research interests include the study of speech perception using auditory modeling, information theory, and pattern recognition.